MDSA02H3 Chapter 1-7: MDSA02 text notes ch. 1-7
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Flash mobs: like a flash flood it suddenly appears in force. Mass and personal: mediated communication can be defined as both mass and personal communication using a physical medium. Mediated communication using external means to carry information, has been part of human life since the start of recorded history. Mediated communication has a push-pull affect, pushing us apart but keeping us tethered to family and friends, to home and sometimes workplace. Alphabets -first alphabet emerged 4000 years ago from managers at copper and turquoise mines in sinai desert. The greeks -as alphabet spread over centuries local communities changed and improved it to fit their own spoken lang. The middle ages -learning and communication suffered following the fall of the roman empire. Chinese and korean writing -chinese writing made up of ideographs (the reps of imgs) -very complex lang -most koreans remained illiterate, commoners entitled to read, but schools restricted for only kids of aristocracy, making edu limited.
